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30-yr-old records destroyed in office fire
Chandigarh, May 2
A major fire broke out at the office of the Directorate of Institutional Finance and Banking, Punjab, in Sector 17 early this morning. Thirty-year-old records and office paraphernalia were destroyed in the fire. However, some files that were kept in almirahs were saved.

Firefighters at the gutted office of the Directorate of Institutional Finance and Banking, Punjab, in Chandigarh on Friday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Punjab directorate gives fire safety a miss
Chandigarh, May 2
The fire safety mechanism, which is required at all the commercial buildings, was missing at the office of the Directorate of Institutional Finance and Banking. The office didn’t even have fire extinguishers.

Youth rapes woman, uploads video on WhatsApp
Dera Bassi, May 2
In a sensational incident, the mother of two children was allegedly raped, filmed and blackmailed by a youth of Meerpur village and his sister-in-law.

School bus claims another life
Chandigarh, May 2
A 16-year-old school student died in an accident after her “scooty” was hit by a private school bus in Sector 19 here today. The driver of the bus escaped after dropping the injured at the hospital. However, he was arrested after the girl succumbed to injuries in the evening.

Members of Kirti Devi’s family grieve at the GMCH-32 in Chandigarh on Friday. a tribune photograph

Violation of building bylaws
HC rap for hotel owners
Chandigarh, May 2
Just about a week after Worldhotel Turquoise was sealed, the Punjab and Haryana High Court today rapped the hotel owners before asking them to remove violations till Monday. The High Court also warned them against carry out commercial activity until the UT Estate Office gave its clearance.

MC building branch under the admn scanner
Chandigarh, May 2
After the UT Estate Office unearthed a nexus between its building branch officials and commercial property owners in the city, the UT Administration has now directed the municipal corporation (MC) to check if there was any such nexus in the MC building branch.

COMMUNITY

Respite from heat in three days: Met
Chandigarh, May 2
City residents will get a much needed relief from the scorching heat as the Met Department has predicted thundershowers in the next three days, which will make the temperature fall. During the past fortnight, the city recorded the highest minimum temperature in the last 10 years Traffic moves amid a dust storm that hit the city on Friday. Tribune photo: S Chandanand the highest maximum temperature in the last four years.

Fortnight on, services yet to start at Panchkula MC’s new building
Panchkula, May 2
For the last fortnight, Vikram Sharma has been shuttling from one office to another in the building of the Municipal Corporation (MC) here to get a marriage registration certificate issued but in vain.

maintenance of public toilets
Probe ordered into favours extended to Outdoor Communications
Chandigarh, May 2
The Commissioner, Municipal Corporation (MC), Chandigarh, has marked an inquiry into a complaint that an undue favour was allegedly given to the Outdoor Communications by not taking advertisement fee from them after they were allotted tender for maintenance and operation of 25 public toilets on Build Operate and Transfer (BOT) basis.

Four kids, woman hurt as parapet falls in Hallo Majra
Chandigarh, May 2
Five persons, including four children and a woman, were injured after parapet of a house collapsed in Hallo Majra this evening. Eyewitnesses said two children, who were playing on the terrace of the house, fell along with the parapet and sustained injuries. A woman and two children, who were standing below, were injured as the rubble fell on them.

The spot where five persons, including four children, were injured as the parapet of a house collapsed in Hallo Majra, Chandigarh, on Friday. Tribune Photo Pradeep Tewari

Supply of medicines partially restored at govt health centres
Chandigarh, May 2
After crisis for about three months, supply of 54 out of a total of nearly 100 medicines (provided free of cost) has been restored at hospitals and health centres in the city.

Draft master plan 2031
UT officials discuss recommendations
Chandigarh, May 2
The UT officials today discussed the recommendations submitted by the ‘Board of Inquiry and Hearing,’ which was constituted by UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil, to look into the objections and suggestions received on the draft master plan-2031.

After SAS Nagar, men outnumber women voters in Kharar 
Mohali, May 2
As in the case of the SAS Nagar segment of the Anandpur Sahib parliamentary constituency, the number of male voters outnumbered female voters in the Kharar segment too, in the polls held on April 30.

suicide abetment case against Karnal sarpanch
3 persons depose before court
Panchkula, May 2
Three persons, including two servants of the victim Karam Singh and a customer, today deposed before the court and informed that Karam told them that he was going to have a talk regarding the job but after half an hour they received the news about his death.

Attack on party candidate
AAP’s Ambala candidate joins protest in Patiala
Panchkula, May 2
Surinder Pal Singh, AAP candidate from Ambala, expressing solidarity with Dr Dharamvir Gandhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate from Patiala who was injured in an attack on the polling day on April 30, joined the protesting party activists at Patiala.

2 HCS officers to join UT Admn
Chandigarh, May 2
The UT Administration today selected two HCS officials for inter-cadre deputation. The Administration selected Satish Kumar Jain, a 2004-batch HCS officer, and Sarita Malik, a 2002-batch officer, from the panel of HCS officials sent by the Haryana government. The officials will soon join the UT Administration.

Illegal construction at hotel razed
Chandigarh, May 2 
The UT Estate Office staff today razed the illegal construction of Hotel Jalandhar in Sector 18. Recently after the directions of the UT DC, the Estate Office had sealed the hotel for violations in its building. It had constructed eight rooms as against the six sanctioned on the first and second floors. At the same site the construction plan for the second floor did not conform to the one that was sanctioned.
UT Estate Office staff remove an illegal construction at Hotel Jalandhar in Sector 18, Chandigarh, on Friday. Tribune photo: Manoj Mahajan

Gold loses sheen on Akshaya Tritiya
Chandigarh, May 2
Amid slowdown in the bullion market, the festival of Akshaya Tritiya also could not revive momentum in sale of gold, at least in the city. A dip of 50 per cent in gold sales was seen on Akshaya Tritiya here today, compared to the previous year.

Florence Nightingale Award for PGI worker
Chandigarh, May 2
Sunita Sharma, a female multipurpose worker of the School of Public Health, PGIMER, has been selected for the National Florence Nightingale Award 2014. The President of India will be giving away the award on May 12, 2014, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

Ailing patient needs help
Chandigarh, May 2 Heena, a four-year-old blood cancer patient from Hoshiarpur district, is in need of Rs 3 lakh for her treatment. Her father Surender Pal is a daily wager and he is unable to afford the cost of her treatment. The patient is currently seeking treatment at the PGIMER, Chandigarh. Those interested in helping the family can contact Surender Pal at 8427752235. — TNS

BIZ NEWS
Technique in heart failure prediction introduced
Chandigarh: SRL Diagnostics Limited, the largest diagnostics network in India, announced the launch of a new lab test- ST2, to help predict risks of coronary diseases by finding a specific biomarker in the bloodstream. It is available across India at all Fortis Labs/ SRL Diagnostics Labs and its collection centres.

EDUCATION

Poor result in reappear examinations
High drama at Dhanas school
Chandigarh, May 2
High drama was witnessed at Government Senior Secondary School, Dhanas, here today as parents of Class IX students, who had failed to clear their reappear examinations, exchanged heated arguments with the school authorities and blamed them for the poor result of the students.

Students and their parents protest at Government Senior Secondary School, Dhanas, in Chandigarh on Friday. Tribune Photo: Pradeep Tewari

14 selected in placement drive
Mohali, May 2
Wipro selected 14 diploma engineering students from Chandigarh Polytechnic College, Gharuan, during a placement drive. It was organised by Chandigarh Polytechnic College on the campus of Chandigarh University, Gharuan.

City lad brings laurels
Chandigarh, May 2
Raghav Nauhria brought laurels to the city and his school, Hansraj Public School, by bagging third position in Class X in the All-India Mathematics Scholarship Examination conducted by Dreamworld India.

Answer keys of AIPMT
HC sets one-month deadline
Chandigarh, May 2
The Punjab and Haryana High Court today set a month’s deadline for the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) chairman to take a considered decision on uploading answer keys of the All-India Pre-Medical Test (AIPMT) on the CBSE portal.

Students get degrees
Chandigarh: As many as 327 students of the Swami Vivekanand Group of Institute were conferred degrees during the fifth annual convocation held on their campus based in Banur on Friday. The degrees were awarded in disciplines such as BTech, BPharmacy, MBA and MCA.
Students of the Swami Vivekanand Group of Institute in a jubilant mood after receiving degrees during the annual convocation in Banur. A Tribune photograph

Save Fuel Day observed
Chandigarh: Student members of the Sohanjana Eco-Club of Government Model Senior Secondary School, Sector 46-D, along with Yuvsatta and the Department of Environment, Chandigarh Administration, observed “Conserve Water-Save Fuel Day” on the school premises. While giving information about the programme, Sohanjana Eco-Club in-charge Baljinder Kaur said a painting competition was organised on the topic “Save Water and Fuel for Future Generation”. A green quiz was also organised.

NEIGHBOURHOOD

Goods worth lakhs gutted
Dera Bassi, May 2
Goods, including raw and finished, besides machinery worth lakhs of rupees were gutted in separate major fires that broke out at two industrial units in last 24 hours here. The cause of the fire could not be ascertained as yet.

A man douses the flames at Nachiketa Papers Limited on the Mubarakpur-Ramgarh Road in Dera Bassi on Thursday night. Tribune Photo: Nitin Mittal

COURTS

Man gets 3-yr jail in bribery case
Panchkula, May 2
A CBI court in Panchkula today awarded three years imprisonment to a civilian working with the Army in a bribery case. A fine of Rs 25,000 has also been imposed on the accused.

Court acquits 15 persons
Panchkula, May 2
Fifteen persons were acquitted by the court today in a group clash that took place in Bator village in 2011.

Graft case: Ex-SMO gets 2-year jail term
Mohali, May 2
A special district court sentenced a former SMO of the Health Department to two years of imprisonment and Rs 25,000 fine in a case of corruption.

CRIME

Youth found hanging from tree at Sec 31
Chandigarh, May 2
The body of a 25-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in the jungle area near Ram Darbar in Sector 31 this morning. A passerby had noticed the body hanging from a tree at around 9.30 am and informed the police control room. The police lowered the body and shifted it to the mortuary of the GMCH-32.

Man duped of Rs 5 lakh
Chandigarh, May 2
A city resident has been duped of Rs 5 lakh on the pretext of winning a lottery. The victim, Kamal Kumar Verma of Mauli Complex, alleged that Ram Singh and others lured and cheated him. He said Ram Singh assured him that he would make him win the first prize of a lottery, which was around Rs 50 lakh. To win the lottery, he was asked to deposit around Rs 5 lakh in two different private bank accounts, which he did.

Thieves decamp with cash, jewellery
Panchkula, May 2
Thieves struck at the quarters of two naib-subedars at Western Command and decamped with cash and jewellery, here today.

Woman’s purse snatched
Chandigarh, May 2
In a snatching case registered today, Raj Rani of Nehru Colony, Sector 52, told the police that a person riding a Pulsar motorcycle sped away after snatching her bag containing Rs 1,000 in cash on Thursday. Raj Rani was crossing a road in Sector 22 when her purse was snatched. Later, the accused, Nizamudin, a resident of Dhanas, was arrested.

Teenager killed in road mishap
Panchkula, May 2
A 17-year-old boy died while his three friends got injured when the bike they were riding was hit head-on by a car near Pinjore bus stand.

SPORTS

ML Markan cricket meet
Chandigarh, May 2
Patiala routed Mohali by an innings and 91 runs in a match played at Dhruv Pandove Stadium in Patiala.

Jairaj wins junior north zone golf tourney
Chandigarh, May 2
Jairaj Singh Sandhu emerged winner in the last leg of the IGU YES Bank Chandigarh North Zonal Junior Golf Championship that was held at the Chandigarh Golf Club.

Golfers of category A and B in a jubilant mood at the Chandigarh Golf Club on Friday. Tribune photo: S Chandan